2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 13, 9:26 AM CST, 4 hours 39 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1026 AM CDT SUN JUL 13 2003 IR SAT PIX HAS BEEN SHOWING SOME DEBRIS CLDS OVR THE FA THIS MORNING FROM THE TSTM COMPLEX FURTHER WEST ALONG THE OK/AR LINE. THE SCTD TSTMS THAT WERE MOVING SEWD OVR NRN MS EARLIER HAVE DISSIPATED. SFC ANALYSIS PLACED THE FNTL BNDRY ALONG THE NRN TIER OF THE FA WITH AN AREA OF WEAK LO PRES OVR ERN AR. DO NOT EXPECT THE BNDRY TO MOVE MUCH TODAY AND SHUD HELP TO FOCUS ANY TSTMS THAT DEVELOP THIS AFTN. AREA 12Z SOUNDINGS INDICATE THE MOST UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO BE ACROSS WRN AR...BUT ANYWHERE ALONG THE BNDRY FROM OK TO TN WILL SOME TSTM ACTIVITY THIS AFTN. THE CURRENT FCST LOOKS GOOD OVERALL..THE ONLY CHANGE IS ALTERING WIND DIRECTION FOR ALL ZNS. .MEG...NONE.
ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-140900- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 333 AM CDT SUN JUL 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MEG.
MSZ004-131915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 143 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 2003 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR...TIPPAH COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF DUMAS AT 143 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM IS ANTICIPATED TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. THIS STORM IS NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE AND NO WARNINGS ARE ANTICIPATED. PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN TIPPAH COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A car dealership in Black Rock had many of its vehicles damaged by the hail.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, July 2003
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5330392, 5329865.